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Dow Jones Plunge Fueled by Overwhelmed Computers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sure-always-blame-the-it-guys dept.

cloudscout writes "The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped over 400 points today. While there were various valid financial reasons for such a decline, some of the blame is being placed on computer systems that couldn't keep up with the abnormally high volume at the New York Stock Exchange and the resulting tremor as they switched over to a backup system."

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  1. Switch to backup system... because of load!? by misleb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh yeah, THATs a good idea. Switch over to your backup system during peak time because the main server, which is probably identical to your backup, can't handling the load. Oh wait, this is probably Windows where such things actually make sense. They probably just needed to reboot the main server. Because as we all know that is quite often the "solution" in Windows.

    -matthew

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